Prevention and Management of Wounds

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Filmed at the 2017 EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, Jill Ley of the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California, USA, moderates a discussion on infection prevention and the management of surgical wounds. She is joined by Teresa Kieser of Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta in Calgary, Canada, Richard Van Valen of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, and Melissa Rochon of the Royal Brompton & Harefield in London, UK. They discuss their routines for the management of standard wounds, infection prevention and care, and empowering patients to take responsibility in their recovery.